Page 2: Historical Events In November - 10
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1687 In this year, Pope Innocent XI publishes decree Coelestis pastor 

1694 Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer. 

1697 English parliament accept army reduction 

1697 William Hogarth, England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress). 

1704 Carlo Zuccari, composer 

1719 Georg Philipp Kress, composer. 

1766 The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). 

1772 Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer 

1775 The United States Marines are organized. 

1775 United States Marine Corps founded. 

1775 Congress forms US Marine Corps 

1777 Cornstalk, Shawnee chief 

1779 Joseph Hewes, US merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 49 

1785 Netherlands and France signs treaty. 

1786 Carl Eberwein, composer. 

1793 France ends forced worship of God. 

1793 Jared Kirtland, US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries. 

1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling 

1808 Osage Treaty signed 

1811 Louis Kufferath, composer. 

1819 Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable 

1821 Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54 

1827 Alfred Howe Terry, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890 

1830 Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864. 

1833 Dobri Voynikov, composer 

1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from Valparaiso 

1834 Jose Hernandez, Argentina poet (MartinFierro) 

1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America 

1844 John S D Thompson, (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94) 

1846 Martin Wegelius, Finnish musicologist/composer. 

1847 The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse. 

1855 Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God). 

1861 Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri). 

1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico 

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